i have 4 beagles and how i train them is kinda cruel in a way for some city folks. For rabbits, i just got 4 tame rabbits and let them go, now we live in the country with a woods behind us so this works perfect. I let the pup smell the bunny before i let it go by shooting one and skinning it, the scent stays on awhile so it should last 6 months but then let the dog walk in the woods and let it jump the rabbit so it sees it and eventually it will work. Also a older dog to teach it what it is suppose to do would work best. Sometimes you get them rabbits that are shot up so take a rope around the rabbits neck and run with it. BUt you have to faster than the dog for at least 20 yards. But play games with it by hidding the bunny in bushes, around the corner, tall grass, etc. once the rabbit is out of sight, the dog tends to put its nose to the ground and smell then chase.

Once you got a good dog that runs rabbits pretty good, put a shocking collar on and when it chases after deer shock, or squirrels, pheasants i usually congratuate the dog, but some methods other than shocking are rolling the dog with a deer leg in a barrel down a hill or put a deers foot in the pen wrapped with barb wire or some cases just beat the dog up which is not the best.

Now your dog is learning rabbits and your shooting them, when your cleaning the rabbits, take out the kidneys, heart, and liver and give to dog, its a treat to them and will know that everytime they go after a bunny, they get that stuff. Or the dog treats at fleet farm the small ones though and give them out in the field. But thats how I do this and I am working on a beagle now that had a growth hormone fire up and is fat and lazy. Its going good but alot of work yet.